[Case Gallery] Homemade Transparent Case with water cooling

[rakesh_sharma23]

Small Update.
I was told by many on different forums that my Watercooling does not contras with the whole transparent cabinet. So I decided to do something ,,, well hope you like my new CPU block.

This is the pic of old CPU block.

This time I made it with 2mm thick copper base with 1mm deep round channel for some water resistance, top with 10mm thick acrylic sheet and added two UV LEDs.

As per working or so called temperature performance it is equal to my old block. Not even a single degree of difference . But looks now cool…, after all watercooling is also somewhat show off.

Hope you all like the new update..
Thanking
Rakesh Sharma

 

[urbtree]

i oringinally went for a 2/10

i love clear cases and know how hard it is to hide all the gubbins
check mine
http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/2602.html
but i`m glad i held back on rating till i`d read through it properly

YOU MADE ALL THIS YOUR SELF????

now i`m impressed. nice work 7/10 from me

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

Thanks Sir

Last week when i played Bioshock 2 for 1 hour or so, the temp of my HD4850 went up to 87c and the entire fan were making lot of noise (since they have to move lot of hot air from inside of the cabinet).
So i said to myself, "It's time to do something of the HD4850." VGA water block for HD4850 was in my mind for even before building the Clearity, and i searched a lot for stock heat sink of HD4850 to convert it into a Water block. But no success.

Many forum members have branded GFX block for HD4850 but they all are very costly. And even my current rad 1x120 is not enough to handle load of both CPU anf GPU.

Last week my friend came to me regarding up-gradation of his PC. He wanted i7. So i made him one. But he also had 1.5 yrs old CM Aquagate S1 cooler, which i have repaired 6 months ago. His original fan blads brooked so i replace it with new CM silent FAN. Now this cooler won’t fit on LCG1366 socket so he asked me to sale it.
After two days of zero response in sale posted on many forums, he gave me the S1 free for the cost.

So now I have an extra rad and a block. Only thing I have to figure out is how to use it with HD4850.
After thinking for whole day I came to this idea.

Now instead to two different loops I added both rads and both pumps in the same loop. This will work better since extra rad will add up more coolant and extra heat exchange, second two pumps will help in better flow and if in any case one pumps dies other will still server the cooling.

So this is the loop flow order.
OLD Rad -> AC pump -> CPU -> S1 Rad -> GPU block/pump -> OLD Rad

Now start moding.
First take apart of the Aquagate S1.
Now added rad to the Clearity. Two fans in push and pull format.

Now made some acrylic mountings to attach the S1 block on to HD4850. After two hours of cutting, filling, drilling and screwing the block finally mounted on the card and I think it looks cool.

It’s too late in night so I have close the work for now.
On Sunday I will make the heatsinks for memory and power mosfets on the card from few old aluminum sinks lying around.

Hope you like the modding.

Rakesh Sharma